Industry body turns down invitationBy Crystal Hsu / Staff reporterChinese National Association of Industry and Commerce (工商協進會) chairman Lin Por-fong (林伯豐) yesterday said that he would not attend a Taiwan-US economic dialogue scheduled for today. “The association will not send a substitute, because there is no time to find one,” the Chinese-language Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper) reported on its Web site yesterday, citing Lin. Taiwan Glass Industry Corp chairman Lin Por-fong, who is also chairman of the Taipei-based Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce, is pictured in Taipei on June 3. Photo: CNAThe story cited sources saying that AIT does not like participants to talk about the event and conveyed its concerns after Lin spoke with the media. Lin, who is chairman of Taiwan Glass Industry Corp (台灣玻璃) said that the association needs only to respond to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, because the ministry — not other institutes — is in charge of regulating and supporting local industries, he said.

Source: Taipei Times September 17, 2020 15:56 UTC